We start training together with Workout Trainer

We continue our series of articles devoted to mobile applications and services designed for physical education. In previous articles, we got acquainted with the proprietary miCoach, promising VirtualGym and unpredictable Sworkit (oh, pay attention to it!).

And today we will get acquainted with the most popular application of this category called Workout Trainer, versions of which exist for iPhone and Android. This trainer will help you not only to conduct fitness classes, but also many other types of training.

Immediately after starting Workout Trainer will offer to create a free account. In the process of creating an account, you will have to answer several simple questions, including specifying your gender, date of birth, desired intensity of training, estimated time of training, training goals (lose weight, increase endurance, build muscle, and so on).

According to the data you entered, a suitable training program will be selected for you. As a rule, this is a cycle of classes developed by professional trainers, designed for 2-6 weeks, designed to help you achieve your goals. If you don't like the proposed program, then you can choose another one yourself. There are not many free training programs in the catalog, but there is a choice.

If you do not want to perform the whole program, then it is possible to run one of the individual workouts. There are a huge number of them here, probably several hundred, while most of them are free. Aimed at different muscle groups, for endurance, flexibility and strength, having different durations, requiring inventory and no — from a huge number of classes, the head is just spinning. To sort out this variety a little, the program has a training catalog that allows you to filter classes by category.

So, you have chosen a workout or a program, we are starting classes. How do they flow?

Before you start training, you need to choose an avatar of the coach, whose voice will give you instructions. All text and voice instructions are in English, so knowledge of it is desirable, but not necessary, since each exercise is accompanied by detailed frame-by-frame illustrations. By the way, these pictures are downloaded from the network before the start of the workout, so you will need an Internet connection.

Each exercise has a duration of 30 to 60 seconds and is accompanied by a countdown and an audible signal. It is possible to pause the exercise or skip it altogether and move on to the next one. After the workout is over, you can share the results on Facebook*, Twitter or by email. Of course, all statistics are downloaded and can be viewed on the program's website.

In addition to the basic functions described above, Workout Trainer has a number of thoughtful little things that make working with it even more convenient and enjoyable. There is integration with a built-in calendar that will remind you about workouts, a special widget for the Desktop, social functions and so on. A huge arsenal of workouts, excellent thoughtfulness and implementation of the application, a lot of convenient functions allow us to confidently say that Workout Trainer is one of the best fitness programs, rightfully having such a large army of users.

Workout Trainer (website, App Store, Google Play)

*Activity of Meta Platforms Inc. and its social networks Facebook and Instagram is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation.